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    CAST Highlight

    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    CAST headquartered in New York offers Highlight, an application portfolio management solution providing software component analysis , application security, application benchmarking, and technical due diligence.

    $25,000

    per year

    GitLab

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AGitLab DevSecOps platform enables software innovation by aiming to empower development, security, and operations teams to build better software, faster. With GitLab, teams can create, deliver, and manage code quickly and continuously instead of managing disparate tools and scripts. GitLab helps teams across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, from developing, securing, and deploying software. Differentiators, as described by Gitlab: Simplicity: With GitLab, DevSecOps can…

    $0

    per month per user

    Pricing
    CAST HighlightGitLab
    Editions & Modules
    Cloud
    25k
    Portfolio Size 25
    SCA
    $26k
    Portfolio Size 25
    Complete
    33k
    Portfolio Size 25
    GitLab Essential
    $0
    per month per user
    GitLab Premium
    $29
    per month per user
    GitLab Ultimate
    $99
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CAST HighlightGitLab
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional DetailsAnnual Pricing by Size of Application Portfolio—
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    Community Pulse
    CAST HighlightGitLab
    Considered Both Products
    CAST
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    GitLab
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    98%
    Would buy again
    125 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    114 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    126 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    81 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    101 Answers
    User Ratings
    CAST HighlightGitLab
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.9
    (142 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CAST HighlightGitLab
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CAST
    I think CAST is a great tool to give insight into your applications. The tool can be met with resistance from team members as the tool is going to expose defects that should be addressed. Out of the box, it may need some tailoring to focus on certain areas so that you are not overwhelmed with defects the first time you scan your code. But ultimately, you will want to eliminate all defects in the code and have all violations turned on.
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    GitLab
    GitLab is good if you work a lot with code and do complex repository actions. It gives you a very good overview of what were the states of your branches and the files in them at different stages in time. It's also way easier and more efficient to write pipelines for CI\CD. It's easier to read and it's easier to write them. It takes fewer clicks to achieve the same things with GitLab than it does for competitor products.
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    Pros
    CAST
    • Identifies common coding vulnerabilities.
    • Compares code to industry best practices.
    • Assesses the code for data privacy compliance.
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    GitLab
    • GitLab excels in managing code versions, allowing easy tracking of changes, branch management, and merging contributions.
    • It helps maintain code stability and reliability, saving time and effort in the development or research workflow.
    • Powerful code review features, enabling collaboration and feedback among team members.
    • Robust project management features, including issue tracking, kanban boards, and milestones.
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    Cons
    CAST
    • Code scans could be faster. A large application may need to be broken down into smaller sub-applications in order to facilitate faster code scans.
    • We spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to best structure our code base in the application for ultimate performance.
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    GitLab
    • CI variables management is sometimes hard to use, for example, with File type variables. The scope of each variable is also hard to guess.
    • Access Token: there are too many types (Personal, Project, global..), and it is hard to identify the scope and where it comes from once created.
    • Runners: auto-scaled runners are for the moment hard to put in place, and monitoring is not easy.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    CAST
    No answers on this topic
    GitLab
    I really feel the platform has matured quite faster than others, and it is always at the top of its game compared to the different vendors like GitHub, Azure pipelines, CircleCI, Travis, Jenkins. Since it provides, agents, CI/CD, repository hosting, Secrets management, user management, and Single Sign on; among other features
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    Usability
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    No answers on this topic
    GitLab
    I find it easy to use, I haven't had to do the integration work, so that's why it is a 9/10, cause I can't speak to how easy that part was or the initial set up, but day to day use is great!
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    Reliability and Availability
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    No answers on this topic
    GitLab
    I've never had experienced outages from GItlab itself, but regarding the code I have deployed to Gitlab, the history helps a lot to trace the cause of the issue or performing a rollback to go back to a working version
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    Performance
    CAST
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    GitLab
    GItlab reponsiveness is amazing, has never left me IDLE. I've never had issues even with complex projects. I have not experienced any issues when integrating it with agents for example or SSO
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    Support Rating
    CAST
    Tech support and pro services are top-notch.
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    GitLab
    At this point, I do not have much experience with Gitlab support as I have never had to engage them. They have documentation that is helpful, not quite as extensive as other documentation, but helpful nonetheless. They also seem to be relatively responsive on social media platforms (twitter) and really thrived when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    CAST
    These other tools only do a part of what CAST does. CAST gives a comprehensive view into the code looking at all aspects, code quality, security, maintainability, vulnerability, privacy, reuse, etc. These other tools only focus on one or two dimensions.
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    GitLab
    Gitlab seems more cutting-edge than GitHub; however, its AI tools are not yet as mature as those of CoPilot. It feels like the next-generation product, so as we selected a tool for our startup, we decided to invest in the disruptor in the space. While there are fewer out-of-the-box templates for Gitlab, we have never discovered a lack of feature parity.
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    Scalability
    CAST
    No answers on this topic
    GitLab
    I think is very well designed, and like any VCS it works as intended
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    Return on Investment
    CAST
    • I believe once we had the tool working for our code base, we immediately saw positive ROI.
    • We spent some time getting to where our code code be scanned efficiently but some of that was trying to do things ourselves instead of fully utilizing Cast Professional Services. I highly recommend to do an engagement with CAST to have them help setup the tool in your environment or to run it in the cloud for you.
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    GitLab
    • GitLab cut down our spent on container, package and infrastructure registry
    • Best thing is we can now have everything in single platform which cost effective too
    • Quality of support is really good and they do have emergency support team as well which is great
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    ScreenShots

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    Screenshot of Application Portfolio ManagementScreenshot of Software Composition AnalysisScreenshot of Portfolio Advisor for Open SourceScreenshot of Portfolio Advisor for CloudScreenshot of Cloud Migration Blockers and Boosters

    GitLab Screenshots

    Screenshot of GitLab, a comprehensive DevSecOps platform.Screenshot of Security DashboardScreenshot of Merge Request